- A Chinese renowned chef accidentally died from her own cooking and was reincarnated into a body of a recently dead woman in ancient China. Struggling to survive, she finds herself in an adventure that will forever change her life.
- Ye Jiayao is a young and talented cook who dreams of becoming a renowned chef one day. As luck would have it, she's magically transported back in time to Imperial China, and in the body of an extremely useless girl. Ye Jiayao is immediately kidnapped and held for ransom, but she manages to use her wits (and her sense of humor) to get whatever she wants.—CBR
- Ye Jiayao was destined to work with food, but she probably didn't think it'd be as a gourmet magazine editor. That all changes when she's magically transported to Imperial China as head chef of the Jinling Heavenly House and falls in love. But it isn't long before her happiness is thwarted as her lover vanishes. Will she find him and continue her cuisine dreams or lose her spice for life?—Crunchyroll
- Ye Jiayao finds herself back in time in the body of Ye Jinxuan. After many twists, she thought that she would finally be able to lead a simple life and achieve her dream of opening the best restaurant in Huai Song. However, there are villains constantly trying to bring her down.—AniList
- Ye Jia Yao is a young, modern celebrity cook who loves Chinese food. She dreams of becoming the most famous chef in the land. But while she is experimenting with a recipe, something goes terribly wrong and she is catapulted back in time to Imperial China. She finds she has woken up in the body of a magistrate's daughter and that her name is now Ye Jin Xuan. Mere moments after she has come to terms with this, bandits descend on her village and kidnap her. She comes face to face with the dashing Xia Chun Yu, the Marquis of the Jing An. Although he appears to be another bandit, he actually has a secret identity. A plot has been hatched to overthrow the Emperor and Xia Chun Yu appears keen to investigate. Ye Jin Xuan begins to form an uneasy alliance with Xia Chun Yu, as she starts to dream of heading to a big city to become a big-name chef. Will her dreams come true? This animation is an adaptation of a hit Chinese web novel of the same name by Zi Yi. The novel also spawned a hit 2018 drama series named "Cinderella Chef." "Cinderella Chef Season 1" is a 2018-2019 Chinese animation series that was directed by Ni Jia Fei.—Rakuten Viki
- Cinderella Chef (Pinyin: Meng Qi Shi Shen, Mengqi Shishen, Lit: Wife God of Cookery), aka Meng Qi Shishen, Adorable Food Goddess, is a donghua ONA series aired in 2018, published by Yuewen Animation and produced by Wawayu Animation in Hangzhou.The animation was adapted from the eponymous online novel written by Ziyi 281.
Ye Jiayao is a modern-day celebrity chef who loves traditional Chinese recipes and often experiments with them. However, when a food experiment goes wrong, she travels back in time to the ancient times, where she becomes the daughter of a magistrate with the name Ye Jin Xuan. When she wakes up she is suddenly kidnapped to Hei Fang Camp where she meets the leader of the bandits, Xia Chun Yu, the young master of the Jing An Marquis manor, who is actually an undercover agent for the king. He had infiltrated the Black Wind Fortress bandits to investigate a plot to overthrow the king. The two then get engaged in a fake marriage. Ye Jia Yao starts to win over hearts, including Xia Chun Yu's, with her superb cooking skills and modern street smarts.
Season 2 goes as follows: Some time ago, the young 21st Century celebrity chef Ye Jia Yao was experimenting with a recipe that went very wrong. It went so badly, in fact, that it sent her back in time to China's Imperial past. She was reborn in the body of a magistrate's daughter as Ye Jin Xuan. And things went from bad to worse when bandits raided the village she found herself in and kidnapped her.
She became the "fake" wife of a dashing marquis named Xia Chun Yu, a man with a secret identity and a special mission. Over time, she began to fall for him, and it seemed that the feeling was mutual. But he never came clean about his feelings, leaving her frustrated. She also met He Lian Jing, a prince who befriended her. Lacking in social skills, he nonetheless formed a close bond with her. Now she has moved to a big city and hopes to make a fresh start as a cook in her new home. But it looks like Xia Chun Yu will reappear on the scene, causing more romantic complications!
"Cinderella Chef" is a 2018-2022 Chinese animation series that was directed by Ni Jia Fei.
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